The Dueler's Guild for PvPers in Battle for Azeroth

Along with War Mode and PvP talents being added on the last beta build, another PvP feature was spotted by German fansite Vanion: the Dueler's Guild!\r\rBlizzard teased this possible PvP feature a few weeks ago, replying to a thread about 1v1 PvP content with the following:\r\rYou know, we have an unannounced feature that may just be up your alley...\r\rLocated in Zuldazar to the west of the Zandalar capital, the Dueler's Arena has a lot of target dummies with Alliance faces, as well as a lot of Duelliste en herbes. The interesting part of this arena, however, comes when you talk to one of the Garde rastaris with War Mode enabled: You can queue for duels in the Zandalar arena! \r\r\r \r \r\rCurrently on Beta, the queue does not seem to work at all. Edit: after publishing the post, the system was fixed and players were able to queue up and fight. Currently, there are no indication that there is any sort of reward for participating in the Dueler's Guild. However, a Dueler's Guild PvP tabard has been datamined, which could be a possible reward:\r\r\r\rThis is also currently a Horde-only feature, as Alliance members are unfriendly to the Rastari Guards, even with War Mode enabled. Boralus recently added some environmental details to the Docks, including Fight Spectator NPCs, which could serve as a place for the Dueler's Guild in the future.\r\rDueler's Guild screenshots\r \r\rLearn more about the BFA PvP System in our PvP Overview, PvP Talent Overview, and War Mode Overview.

Commentaire de walozdle

Commentaire de apedosmil

I hope this get's some reward structure, even if reduced. I'd queue for this a lot. Assuming that tabard isn't from winning 3 million duels in the duelers guild, I want that too.

Commentaire de Aesiria

on 2018-05-12T19:49:23-05:00

Why do you assume it's like Black Rook Hold arena(with buff) rather than a pvp version of the Brawler's Guild(no buff)?

Commentaire de Zarienia

on 2018-05-12T19:49:25-05:00

Holy... they did it, I can't believe they did it! Now I can lose with only myself to be embarrassed in myself and not a team!

Commentaire de Reanimatez

on 2018-05-12T20:32:13-05:00

No tanks please

Commentaire de Cyberium

on 2018-05-12T20:38:40-05:00

Let's duel!

Commentaire de Ashkazzak

on 2018-05-12T20:49:18-05:00

Would be sick if you could spectate duels like brawlers guild, other then that neat

Commentaire de brywen

on 2018-05-12T20:50:48-05:00

blizz, we made it this far, so pls dont screw this up now and make it a tournament rule based 1v1 so trinkets wont work...

Commentaire de omedon666

on 2018-05-12T21:46:47-05:00

So, I'm curious: WoW has, according to people that are loud about it, never ever even tried to balance itself for 1v1. I can't expect that to change, so the question is then... should they ever, ever put any kind of reward system in for the dueler's guild?

I mean, you could argue that with the honor system being an account wide thing, the option exists for those that perceive PVP "I win" classes to just... always queue on that class if they feel at a disadvantage otherwise, while those that feel they are good enough to overcome said perceived balance issues will just queue on whatever class they feel good at.

Should this ever go deeper than account wide honor?

To be clear, I will literally never touch this, but I'm very happy for those for whom this scratches a long-needed itch... but do those people expect "responsible" levels of balance? I think that seems too much to ask, but it's a fascinating question to me to watch get discussed!

Commentaire de tridraco7

on 2018-05-12T22:05:46-05:00

you know if this is like the brawlers guild, to get the tabard youll probably need rep, and it might be attained just for queing, and maybe bonus for winning. just a thought.

Commentaire de Draccy

on 2018-05-12T22:53:47-05:00

Aww, no "10 paces, turn and fire"?\rDarn.

Commentaire de Aarkan

on 2018-05-12T23:25:09-05:00

I really dig this idea. I'd love to be able to see multiple duels going on in different fields. Indicators for class and spec would be cool too. And definitely an announcer. I'm also looking forward to Brawler's Guild in BFA. I loved the refresh in Legion but I wish they would have continued to add more difficult brawls.

Commentaire de SilverDragon234

on 2018-05-13T00:11:58-05:00

Now i know where i'll spend all my time in game on non raid nights.\r\rAside from Goldshire, at best.

Commentaire de selkie47

on 2018-05-13T00:44:54-05:00

Sounds cool! I really hope we get to spectate these fights. If so, maybe that's where I'll be while waiting for queues to pop. ;D

Commentaire de Nathasil

on 2018-05-13T01:16:30-05:00

I really dig this idea. I'd love to be able to see multiple duels going on in different fields. Indicators for class and spec would be cool too. And definitely an announcer. I'm also looking forward to Brawler's Guild in BFA. I loved the refresh in Legion but I wish they would have continued to add more difficult brawls.\r\rHow could they? With absolutely no spec-specific tuning it is impossible to create encounters that are even remotely challenging. How would YOU design a fight that is challenging for both an ilvl970 Blood DK and an ilvl930 Fire Mage? Exactly...you don't. It's one of the biggest downfalls of Brawler's....and Dueller's will have the same issue. Albeit, if PvP-Gear-Scaling is in place it will not be THAT bad. I expect a lot of rock-paper-scissor to happen...tanks are obviously hard counters to many physical DPS specs...and since casters are a LOT less popular with the "duel PvP crowd" than Melee DPS....i suspect tanks will be extremely common there, as the risk to run into a caster is just so much smaller.

Commentaire de sawier

on 2018-05-13T03:40:27-05:00

I hope healers and tanks wont be able to queue, or at least if they do they would be matched only with other tanks\/healers to get taste of their own medicine.

Commentaire de saleenahohan

on 2018-05-13T04:19:27-05:00

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Commentaire de Mioko

on 2018-05-13T05:28:08-05:00

I hope healers and tanks wont be able to queue, or at least if they do they would be matched only with other tanks\/healers to get taste of their own medicine.\r\rWell, I don't PvP a lot, but as a Brewmaster I can't do much against most DD specs on 1v1, at least when Battleground\/Arena rules apply.\rMaybe it's isolated because BRM is maybe the one and only tank with no self-healing at all when there are no other sources !\rFeelsbadman

Commentaire de arby

on 2018-05-13T06:42:56-05:00

I wonder how it's going to pan out if it's really going to be 1v1 PvP fights, considering the 1v1 balancing is pretty much nonexistent.